Marginwalking
About a week ago marginwalker relaunched. From their about page:
marginwalker is a shared discussion space intended to incubate practical ideas, tools and strategies for living in these hopeful and difficult times: “open-source futurism,” if you will. Think of it as a space combining some of the best features of tool-strewn workshop and Viennese coffeehouse.
I wasn’t aware of the site prior to its relaunch, but spent the better part of last weekend combing through their archives. Excellent stuff there and some of the most interesting discussions i’ve ever read online. You could spend hours just going through some of the more recent threads (i did), so as a starting point, here are three of my favourite discussions: Moving (Violation), The fourth place? and Rolling yr own. When you’re done with reading that and convinced that it’s good, subscribe to their feed.
And because it somehow fits into “global nomadics” and “ubiquitous and ambient information systems”, two proclaimed interests of the marginwalker community, i’d also like to point to a recent piece by Diego Doval on travel in which he observes that during his last trip the internet became
[a]nother place that, unlike my surroundings, remained constant no matter where I was.
This is something i’ve observed myself and struggle to put in context with the rising physicality and localization of information technology and services. Is it all about virtual reality or augmented reality, or both, or none, or something else?